X-Nico

27 unusual facts about The X-Files


Alex Gansa

Previously he worked as a writer and supervising producer on The X-Files in its first two seasons, and on Dawson's Creek in its third season.

Alienware

According to employees, the Alienware name was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51, Hangar 18 and Aurora.

Christopher and Kevin Graves

Since 1996, they have only been seen twice on TV: First on ER (as "Danny" and "Josh", May 1996), and then on The X-Files (as "Kid", February 2001).

Daniel Ducovny

1999 - "The Unnatural" — guest appearance in this The X-Files episode, which was written and directed by his brother David

Dwight Hicks

He also made appearances on various television shows, including How I Met Your Mother, Castle, Body of Proof, Cold Case, The Practice, The X-Files, ER and The O.C..

Frank Varela

A UCLA graduate, Varela has designed and art directed for properties such as The X-Files and ER.

Gabe Rotter

Rotter began his career as a production assistant and later the writers' assistant on the popular paranormal television show "The X-Files," working under series creator Chris Carter.

Home, Pennsylvania

The town became famous as the setting for an episode of the television show The X-Files entitled "Home" which originally aired on October 11, 1996.

Jeffrey Bell

He began his career writing for The X-Files, where he stayed for three seasons, then became a writer/director/producer on Angel, becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons.

John J. Pierce

He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.

Marcus Giamatti

He has also guest-starred on a number of popular series, such as The X-Files, Homicide: Life on the Street, Monk, The Mentalist and House M.D. and Criminal Minds.

Margit Sandemo

Besides these she is fond of Star Wars films, thriller film The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme and earliest episodes of TV-series The X-Files.

May Berenbaum

She also had a character in The X-Files named after her: Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, a famous entomologist and love-interest of Agent Mulder.

Michael Yama

Michael Yama (born about 1945) is an actor who has regularly voiced for GI Joe has been on The X-Files, Just Shoot Me and Lois & Clark and is now a star on Betty White's Off Their Rockers.

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena

The frequently UFO-themed X-Files made occasional references to NICAP, most notably in the season 1 episode Fallen Angel in the shape of NICAP researcher Max Fenig.

Only When I Sleep

It is abandoned today but still used as a filming location of many films, TV shows (e.g. The X-Files) and other music videos (like Hanson's "This Time Around").

Rede 21

Most part of this schedule (7pm - 12am) was occupied by Japanese cartoons and American series like Sex and The City, The X-Files and That 70's Show.

Robert Greenblatt

Greenblatt began his television career at the Fox Broadcasting Company where he ran prime-time programming and developed such shows as the original Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place, The X-Files, and Party of Five.

Samantha Mulder

Samantha is mentioned once again in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, being the inspiration that drives Mulder to try to save a likely-dead agent.

Shoo Rayner

These series have very different themes: the "Dark Claw" books are a spoof of Star Wars and other such science-fiction stories, starring cats and rodents; the "Rex Files" (a take-off on the television series The X-Files) feature a duo of canine sleuths named Rex and Franky who investigate various terrifying paranormal events; and the "Ginger Ninja" books are about a pawball-mad kitten named Ginger who faces typical elementary-school problems such as bullies.

The X-Files: Resist or Serve

Intended as three new episodes set during the show's 7th season, the game follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (voiced by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (voiced by Gillian Anderson) as they travel to a small town in the Rocky Mountains to dig into the source of some strange and unexplained murders.

It features Mark Snow's theme music from The X-Files series, as well as voice acting by the show's actors.

The X-Files: The Album

Many of the songs on The X-Files: The Album are cover versions or reworkings of earlier material—singer Sting collaborated with the group Aswad to perform a reggae cover of "Invisible Sun", which he had earlier recorded with The Police; Filter's "One" is a rearrangement of a song made famous by Three Dog Night; while Foo Fighters contributed a new version of their song "Walking After You".

Titan Books

Titan Books’ range of fiction includes novelisations of such films as Terminator Salvation, Iron Man, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and The Dark Knight Rises.

TXF

The X-Files, the American science fiction television series

Walking in Memphis

The Cher version of the song was a notable part of the conclusion of The X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus".


Audioblog

MP3 blog or musicblog, through which music files are made available for download.

Bert Ehgartner

He spent the past years investigating the topic of aluminum and human health and wrote a book, 'Dirty Little Secret - The Aluminum Files' (only available in German) and directed a 90-minute documentary film, 'The Age of Aluminum' where he explains the science behind the threat that he infers from certain aluminium compounds (e.g. Aluminium sulfate by referencing the Camelford water pollution incident)

Bishopstoke

Eastleigh's museum in the High Street, which is open from Tuesday to Saturday, holds several files containing information about Bishopstoke's historic past and associated personalities, such as John Bale, Samuel Sewall, and Dean Garnier.

Brian Flanagan

The FBI surveillance files on Weatherman reported that on October 20, 1970 Flanagan was in Algeria meeting with Eldridge Cleaver, exiled Black Panther Party leader.

Captain FTP

Captain FTP also provides a Dashboard widget for uploading files, the virtual folders feature can also be used to accomplish the same task without Dashboard.

Clayton Sandell

From his home base in Denver, Sandell files for all ABC News broadcasts, including "Good Morning America", "World News" and "Nightline".

Craig Schuftan

He has worked with Richard Kingsmill (The J-Files), Chris Taylor and Craig Reucassel from The Chaser (Today Today and The Race Race), Roy & HG (This Sporting Life), Myf Warhurst, Jay Whalley and Lindsay McDougall (Myf, Jay & The Dr) and Sam Simmons (Sam Simmons’ Precise History of Things).

Dave Jenkins

Dave Jenkins Jr (born ca. 1988) is an Australian musician, he is the drummer for indie pop singer Andy Bull, Australian 2011 The X-Factor winner Reece Mastin and indie soul singer/songwriter Amali Ward.

Doom II: Hell on Earth

Final Doom consists of two 32-level megawads (level files), TNT: Evilution by TeamTNT, and The Plutonia Experiment by the Casali brothers.

Dynamic-link library

The file formats for DLLs are the same as for Windows EXE files – that is, Portable Executable (PE) for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and New Executable (NE) for 16-bit Windows.

Elephants Dream

The film was released for download directly and via BitTorrent on the Official Orange Project website on May 18, 2006, along with all production files.

FHS

File Hosting Service, a service that provides hosting user files on the Internet

Frank Spotnitz

After The X-Files ended its run in 2002, Spotnitz served as executive producer alongside director Michael Mann of the critically acclaimed CBS crime drama Robbery Homicide Division.

French cartography

The old maps produced by the SCA were divided into two batches: one which remained at the Institute and one which joined the military files of Vincennes.

Gregory Sierra

He also guest starred on many television series during his career, including appearances on Mod Squad, Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Greatest American Hero, Soap, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote and Hill Street Blues.

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit enables running batch actions such as global search and replace in multiple files, Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Netscape side-by-side previewing, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checking through HTML Tidy, internal Command Prompt, TimeTracker, translations, Text to Speech Wizard and UnicodePad.

Information policy

More precisely, — the digization of the cultural content made the cost of the copy decreasing to nearly zero and increased the illegal exchange of files, online, via sharing web site or P2P technologies, or off line (copy of hard disks).

ISO image

A more recent example is the release of hybrid ISO files that can be booted or started from both BD or DVD and USB flash drive devices when the image is written to any of these storage devices.

Judoon

In the novella Revenge of the Judoon, where they seized Balmoral Castle in 1902 after being conned into a fraudulent mission, they made a deal with the Doctor that meant Earth was off-limits to them, something confirmed as canonical with the TV series by the BBC Monster Files feature.

Kitsunegari

In Lorton, Virginia, Robert Patrick Modell escapes from a prison hospital, after which the guard on duty dazedly says, "He had to go."

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode three-and-a-half stars out of five.

Lindsey Ginter

He is known as Crew Cut Man, Deep Throat's assassin, in the TV series The X-Files and as Sam Austen, Kate Austen's father, in Lost.

Little A'Le'Inn

It is featured in The X-Files season six episode "Dreamland II", in Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends season one episode 2 - "UFO's" and in the film Paul.

Madhyam

Developed by Balendu Sharma Dadhich, it can be used for creating, opening, saving and modifying text files and taking print-outs.

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

Michael M. Davis

During Harry S. Truman's time as President, Michael Davis kept files and records of Truman's speeches.

Nancy Gertner

Judge Gertner presided over Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, a civil trial in which the Recording Industry Association of America accused Joel Tenenbaum, a Massachusetts college student, of illegally downloading and sharing files, thus violating U.S. copyright law.

OpenTMS

Currently the following data sources are supported: TMX files, XLIFF file, SQL databases.

Philip Berrigan

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Massachusetts was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

Pyglet

Images, video, and sound files in a range of formats can be done natively, with more additional capabilities supplied by the optional AVbin plugin, which uses the Libav package to provide support for audio formats including MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV, and XviD.

Quonochontaug, Rhode Island

In season 3 finale (Talitha Cumi), Mulder gets a call from AD Skinner, who tells him that his mother has been admitted to a hospital in Quonochontaug.

Retinal scan

In the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Admiral Kirk gains access to top secret computer files by use of a retinal scan.

Robert Goodwin

R. W. Goodwin, American television producer and director best known for his work as senior executive producer of The X-Files

Samsung SGH-A707

jar files as games without WAP, deleting the preloaded ringtones and background images, to editing the T9 dictionary.

Simply Audiobooks

These downloads are DRM-protected WMA files which can be downloaded to any Windows computer with Windows Media Player 10 or 11 and are compatible with most MP3 players.

The 'W' Files

The 'W' Files (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series Wisely, starring Gallen Lo as Wisely.

The Cuckoo's Egg

Stoll recorded the hacker's actions as he sought, and sometimes gained unauthorized access to military bases around the United States, looking for files that contained words such as "nuclear" or "SDI".

The Mysterious Traveler

And the succeeding answers were equally disconcerting and not in all cases publishable—though I have forwarded a copy to Miskatonic University for its files.

The X-Files franchise

The first show, The X-Files, became an international hit and its two main actors, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, became international sex symbols.

The X-Files Game

The screenplay for X-Files The Game was written by Richard Dowdy, Greg Roach and Frank Spotnitz, from a story by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz.

Tucker Smallwood

On television, he has been a regular and made guest appearances on many series, including Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Friends, and The Sarah Silverman Program.

USS Ardent

USS Ardent is also the name of a fictional US destroyer escort in the X-Files episode Død Kalm.

VORPAL

VORPAL output files may also be viewed with other visualization tools such as VisIt.

W ABC

W ABC was a program that converted files from Luxor ABC 80 and ABC 800 to PC compatible computers.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.